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Can you even do a show like The sopranos these days?
1 posted on 01/15/2024 12:18:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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The golden age of tv died in 1986 when they cancelled Hardcastle and McCormick


2 posted on 01/15/2024 12:21:34 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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It’s all dead really.

They’re remaking Roadhouse, which is absolutely ridiculous.

They might be making a 3rd Top Gun as if the second one wasn’t bad enough.

How many Fast & Furious’s are they gonna make?

They all went on strike and no one cared. No one paid attention.

And to think, bozo Kemp and the corrupt Ga legislature gives these POSs $1,500,000,000 a year in tax breaks


3 posted on 01/15/2024 12:21:38 PM PST by qaz123
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Probably not. But I have plenty of content to stream once I’m in retirement.


4 posted on 01/15/2024 12:21:40 PM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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I’m completely confused.

I’ve often heard the Golden Age of Television was the 50s and early 60s, featuring sitcoms such as I Love Lucy ,Father Knows Best ,The Donna Reed Show , and serious dramatic shows such as Playhouse 90 and the Kraft television theater.

Was there a second golden age when cable channels such as HBO started coming out with original programming?


5 posted on 01/15/2024 12:24:03 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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If only the writers had pressed on to High School......


6 posted on 01/15/2024 12:24:51 PM PST by G Larry ("XFKAT" We can't keep spelling out "X Formerly Known As Twitter"!)
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It’s been dead for a while.


7 posted on 01/15/2024 12:25:33 PM PST by Overtaxed (Stiff the Fed)
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The golden age of tv died in 1977 when they cancelled Sanford and Son…….


13 posted on 01/15/2024 12:30:48 PM PST by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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It is now Soviet Union television.

There are only limited approved narratives and themes. The focus is on having more than a representative number of minority and women actors. White males are only eligible for dumb and/or evil roles.


14 posted on 01/15/2024 12:32:17 PM PST by alternatives?
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If you keep in mind that ‘The Sopranos’ was on HBO, a pay tv service, then yes, there are a lot of good shows available on streaming platforms.

Wisting
Hidden
Shetland
The Chestnut Man
Broadchurch
Line Of Duty

On PBS, Downton Abbey was good, and All Creatures Great And Small is a fine show.


15 posted on 01/15/2024 12:33:00 PM PST by Roadrunner383 (m)
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“Print is dead. Movies are dead. TV is dead.” Drudge Manifesto, year 2000, page 113. Matt predicted it, since he saw how the internet would take over all programming.


16 posted on 01/15/2024 12:33:01 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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TV’s Golden Age died long before his mob show ever aired.


17 posted on 01/15/2024 12:33:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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I don’t watch a single current TV show. They are all pop culture disasters.


19 posted on 01/15/2024 12:34:53 PM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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The 1950s are long behind us.


20 posted on 01/15/2024 12:35:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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I am not at all certain that TV ever had a “”Golden Age.” In 1961 FCC Chairman Newton Minow declared TV to be “a vast wasteland.” I have seen nothing to convince me he was wrong.


22 posted on 01/15/2024 12:37:47 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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Netflix there are a couple series I want to watch and it is set to cancel. At any rate, they have an abundance of foreign series. I know Netflix available world wide. And the children’s banner is rainbow. Again with this crap. I know someone w


23 posted on 01/15/2024 12:37:59 PM PST by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people )
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I also think he's afraid to say diversity.

remember, he wanted to do a prequel to the Sopranos, but it went nowhere. Mainly because they just HAD to put in blacks, and not only that, I am sure they put them on equal footing as the Italians in the story, even though there was never a black mafia that could get out of their own way in the entirety of human history. (I never saw The Many Saints of Newark) And I bet every period piece nowadays set in pre-1990s had to show how racist the society was, as well. It gets to the point where it's not worth doing anything with the restrictions/quotas.

25 posted on 01/15/2024 12:38:58 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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Can you even do a show like The sopranos these days?

Nope. There's no racial diversity in a show about Italian-American mobsters.

After the Summer of Mostly Peaceful Protests, Hollywood adopted very rigid rules about racial representation. It's very difficult to get a TV show or movie green-lit without a diverse cast.

26 posted on 01/15/2024 12:39:34 PM PST by Gena Bukin
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27 posted on 01/15/2024 12:40:13 PM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I recently watched the full series of the Sopranos for the first time in a couple of decades.

For those who have not seen it I am not going to give away any spoilers.

That said—imho the ending was stunning and brilliant—nothing like it before or since—went way over the head of most of the audience—on multiple levels.

The Sopranos is multi-layered and stunningly complex once you get into the details of it.

There are double meanings to just about everything—hilarious inside jokes—really rewards close concentration.

It was a true work of art.

I would also add that to understand it you need to have a complete understanding of the Godfather movies—many of the scenes are homages to those movies.


28 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:01 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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My four sisters told me I have to watch Yellowstone. A friend did as well

My sisters don’t talk to each other much

So I tried, First then latest
MIT was then worst piece of crap I can remember enduring. Pornography. Hateful immoral characters. No heroes

I don’t think anything else is any good.

We watch reruns of sitcoms over and over. Brooklyn 99 only the early ones

Frasier

Parks and recs

The nanny

The old magnum

The Brits have good programming, all creatures. Why didn’t they ask evans. David suchets Poirot

Blue bloods I watch bc I’m Irish New York and grew up in a big ass house on the water like they have. We were fdny and finance ppl mostly but it’s very familiar

Tge early seasons were great. Some all time greats

They should have brought good recurring extended characters and they should never ever have let Jennifer Esposito go.


29 posted on 01/15/2024 12:41:09 PM PST by stanne
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